Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Hannan / Media Tennessean's Publisher to Serve as Chairman of Nashville's Convention & Visitor's Bureau
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:05 PM
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Based on her hard hitting investigation and her history of being a presenter of awards to her friends at McNeeley Piggot and Fox I am surprised that Gail Kerr didn't get this job.
I am guessing that this means the Tennessean will not be requesting the MP&F invoices for services rendered on behalf of the convention center, English for All of Us, or the mayor's inauguration? I am dying to know how much government money has been spent lobbying itself and what the services consisted of.
These are public documents after all, even if they are hidden away in the MDHA hall of protective shame. Got to love OBEs.
This is a good little item and I hope you will keep following up with calls to the publisher and to the Convention Bureau.
In the meantime, speaking of our local media, I understand that the offices of the Scene are filled with speculation about the efforts of City Paper publisher (and former Scene publisher) Chris Ferrell to put together a group of investors to try to buy the Scene from VVM. Don't you think this news is just as worthy of a Pith post as Ms. Leifeld's new volunteer job?
"This is a good little item."
Very true. Almost makes up for failing to do any reporting on a major national news story last week.
Agreed, Reader, but to those of us in the business (or once in the business ) it will be even more interesting to see how the Scene reports this news about itself-----which is the best and hardest test of a newspaper's essential honesty and commitment to journalism.
